Job Title: Salaried General Practitioner
Reports to: The Partners (Clinically), The Practice Manager (Administratively)
Job Summary
To deal with a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.
Clinical Responsibilities
The post holder will undertake a variety of duties including:
1. Surgery consultations
2. Telephone consultations and queries
3. Visiting patients at home
4. Checking and signing repeat prescriptions
5. Taking action on electronic prescription requests and dealing with prescription queries
6. Paperwork and correspondence, including electronic correspondence
7. Dealing with patient test results and medical reports
8. Referral letters and any other correspondence as appropriate in a timely manner
Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers. Assess the health needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems. Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness. Provide counselling and health education. Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards, primarily by use of the computer system and complete the clinical system templates as appropriate. Collect data for audit purposes. Prescribe in accordance with the Practice prescribing formulary and agreed guidelines.
Other Responsibilities within the Practice
Awareness and compliance with all relevant policies/guidelines including, but not limited to:
1. Prescribing
2. Confidentiality
3. Data protection
4. Health and safety
5. Safeguarding
6. QOF and CQC
A commitment to lifelong learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice. Contribute to the evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation. Contribute to the practice achievement of QOF and other performance targets. Attend training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate, including clinical and non-clinical training. Ensure that personal mandatory and organisationally required training is up to date.
Confidentiality
In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. All such information is to be regarded as strictly confidential. Breach of confidentiality is gross misconduct and could lead to dismissal from the practice.
Health and Safety
The post holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice health & Safety Policy, including:
1. Identifying the risks involved in work activities
2. Using appropriate infection control procedures
3. Maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way
4. Reporting potential risks identified and Significant Events promptly
Equality and Diversity
The post holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
1. Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights
2. Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
3. Behaving in a manner which is welcoming and respects their circumstances
Personal/Professional Development
The post holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, including:
1. Participation in an annual individual performance review
2. Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance
3. Participating in revalidation or re-accreditation processes
Quality
The post holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:
1. Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
2. Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions
3. Contribute to the effectiveness of the team
4. Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
5. Effectively manage own time, workload and resources
Communication
The post holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:
1. Communicate effectively with other team members
2. Communicate effectively with patients and carers
3. Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly
Contribution to the Implementation of Services
The post holder will:
1. Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
2. Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect their own work
3. Participate in audit where appropriate
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